I installed the Vaadin plugin on Eclipse and created a brand new Vaadin Project.
I get this exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException: Failed to load application class: com.example.testvaadin.TestvaadinApp
com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:71)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:108)
The critical parts of my web.xml look like this:
<context-param>
<description>Vaadin production mode</description>
<param-name>productionMode</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>TestvaadinApp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.ApplicationServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<description>
Vaadin application class to start</description>
<param-name>application</param-name>
<param-value>com.example.testvaadin.TestvaadinApp</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TestvaadinApp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The test app looks like this:
package com.example.testvaadin;
import com.vaadin.Application;
import com.vaadin.ui.Label;
import com.vaadin.ui.Window;
public class TestvaadinApp extends Application
{
@Override
public void init()
{
Window mainWindow = new Window( "TestvaadinApp" );
Label label = new Label( "Hello Vaadin user" );
mainWindow.addComponent( label );
setMainWindow( mainWindow );
}
}
I’m having Eclipse deploy directly into the Tomcat7’s “webapps” directory which looks like this:
TestVaadin/
TestVaadin/META-INF
TestVaadin/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
TestVaadin/WEB-INF
TestVaadin/WEB-INF/web.xml
TestVaadin/WEB-INF/lib
TestVaadin/WEB-INF/classes
TestVaadin/WEB-INF/classes/com
TestVaadin/WEB-INF/classes/com/example
TestVaadin/WEB-INF/classes/com/example/testvaadin
TestVaadin/WEB-INF/classes/com/example/testvaadin/TestvaadinApp.class
I have the “vaadin-6.5.5.jar” file in Tomcat’s “lib” directory.
What am I missing? Thanks in advance!